After much gnawing and gnashing of teeth, I’ve decided to let Tidal lapse and not renew. Much of that is because of my return to physical media (CDs, SACDs, and Vinyl) after 16 years wandering around the formless streaming and computer based music world. For me, it’s just more fun to have a music collection I can touch than all the music ever made residing in a more abstract space.
I’ll miss a few beloved Tidal playlists, but I really only listen to them a few times a year.
And as mentioned in the now closed companion thread on this topic, streaming leaves me with a queasy ethical conundrum.
And thus the march back to the 1990’s technology continues. Still have the lifetime Roon license, but these days only use Roon perhaps twice a month. I’m totally under the spell of putting a CD or SACD into the tray, or going through the hassle that is vinyl. It’s my music. I own it. And there’s a satisfaction to that which computer based music (including streaming) has failed to achieve.
In 10 years I’ll probably be deep into the Edison Cylinder revival 